The week that was! Mohanlal, Tovino Thomas, Kalyani Priyadarshan, M-Town celebrities who made headlines

From Mohanlal sharing an update on his most anticipated project ‘Randamoozham’ to an OTT giant ‘butchering’ the English subtitles of Tovino Thomas’ latest release ‘Thallumaala’, and Kalyani Priyadarshan announcing her next, here’s a list of who and what made headlines in Malayalam cinema this week.

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Mohanlal’s most anticipated film ‘Randamoozham’ based on the eponymous novel by legendary writer MT Vasudevan Nair, won’t happen anytime soon. In a recent interview with a media house, Mohanlal confirmed the same and added that the coronavirus pandemic delayed the project. ‘Randamoozham’ was said to be featuring Mohanlal in the lead role of Bheema, and there were also discussions around Hariharan helming it.

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Leena Antony, best known for her role in ‘Maheshinte Prathikaram’ appeared for the 10th equivalency exam at the age of 73. The actress was clicked appearing for the exam conducted at Cherthala Government Higher Secondary School. Leena, who reportedly began her acting career at 13 couldn’t complete her education and decided to cross that benchmark in her 70s.

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Subtitling artists of ‘Thallumaala’, Anju and Shyam Narayanan TK, called out the OTT giant for ‘butchering’ its English subtitles. As per them, the OTT platform has used “substantially edited, watered-down, butchered version,” of their work, without their consent. “The English subtitles of the movie 'Thallumaala', which we delivered to the Netflix team, were reviewed line-by-line and approved by the creative director and one of the writers, Mr Muhsin Parari. However, we are deeply saddened to inform you that the current subtitles published on Netflix are a substantially edited, watered-down, butchered version of our work. Several nuances we included in the subtitles are missing. Especially the songs! They've heavily toned down the songs' subtitles to their literal meanings and made them soulless,” they said in a statement. The film starring Tovino Thomas and Kalyani Priyadarshan started streaming on the platform from September 11.

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Kalyani Priyadarshan is headlining ‘Shesham Mike-il Fathima’ helmed by debutant Manu C Kumar. The upcoming film will feature Kalyani as Fathima, a football announcer from Malappuram. The film went on floors on Wednesday (Sep 14). Hesham Abdul Wahab is composing music for the film.

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Unni Mukundan will be headlining an upcoming film titled ‘Malikappuram’. Touted to be a family drama with elements of fantasy, the film, as its title implies has a female devotee of Lord Ayyappa as the protagonist. The film went on floors earlier this week, and members of the Pandalam royal family paid a visit to the sets of the film. ‘Malikappuram’ is directed by debutant Vishnu Sasi Sankar.

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